GHS Swims Well at Yukon Invitational - Senior Standout Has Two Record-Breaking Swims
The cheers coming from the Guymon fans could not be mistaken at the Yukon Invitational swim meet in Edmond on Saturday, December 11. Many Guymon families and friends traveled to Edmond for the meet with 22 teams, both 5A and 6A, competing against each other. And The Tigers did not disappoint their fans. 26 personal records were broken by individual swimmers and relays.
Representing the Guymon women team were Brea Homan, Sydney Landers, Lauren El-Amoudi, Kathy Zavalza, Solana Vargas, and Laramie Long.
Swimming for the Tiger men were Cash Mains, Jose Saenz, Jevin Setzer, Jaxon Miller, Gage Gomez, MacKobe Merwin, Thomas Mussman, Harrison Oakes, and Jaysen Macias.
GHS had several top-ten finishes in Yukon, beginning with the Women's 200 Yard Medley Relay. Swimming this event were Homan, Landers, El-Amoudi, and Zavalza. These ladies earned a new relay teambest time of 2:25.46. Swimming the Men's 200 Yard Medley Relay were Gomez, Merwin, Mussman, and Oakes. The men's relay placed 7th with a new teambest time of 1:51.79. Kathy Zavalza placed 10th in the 50 Freestyle, with a new personal best time of 29.46. Sooner Merwin came in 9th in his 50 Freestyle, finishing at 24.80. Gage Gomez placed 7th in his 100 Freestyle, with an impressive 9.7-second drop in time, finishing with 56.19. Coming in 6th place on the 500 Freestyle was Lauren El-Amoudi, also with a new personal best time of 6:30.99. The Men's 200 Yard Freestyle Relay, consisting of Merwin, Miller, Gomez, and Mussman, earned a bronze medal with a 3rd place time of 1:40.59. Sydney Landers swam a new personal best time of 1:26.02 while placing 7th in the 100 Yard Breastroke. Merwin earned another top-10 finish with a time of 1:09.01 in the Men's 100 Yard Breaststroke, placing 8th. Finishing 7th, the Women's 400 Yard Freestyle Relay, earned their new relay team-best time of 4:40.43. This was swum by Zavalza, Long, Landers, and El-Amoudi.
Last, and by no means least, in notably his best high school career swim, Tiger Senior Thomas Mussman earned a gold medal in the 50 Free, while also breaking a new GHS school record with a time of 22.61. He also was able to break the 100 Freestyle school record for GHS, while placing 2nd and earning a silver medal with a new time of 49.66.
The Tigers enjoyed a great meet against both 5A and 6A schools at Yukon, which gave them a good preview of what their 5A competition will be like ahead of Regionals, which will take place early in February. The Tiger women placed 9th with 83 points and the men came in 7th with 130 points.
The GHS Swim Team competes next at Duncan on Friday, December 17.